ANALIZA I KARATKTERISTIKE KOSOG ČEONOG SUDARA VOZILA / ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OBLIQUE FRONTAL VEHICLE COLLISION

Abstract

The most common traffic accidents on the roads are collisions between two or more vehicles. The consequences of a traffic accident depend on many factors, but there are two dominant factors: the first is the amount of kinetic energy that the vehicles have at the moment of primary contact, and the second is the position and manner of entry of the vehicle into the collision process. Kinetic energy depends on the mass and speed of the vehicle, where the amount of kinetic energy can be corrected by the speed of the vehicle on the road. With adequate traffic signaling and constant controls on the roads, the speed of the vehicle can be influenced and the negative consequences of the accident based on the possession of kinetic energy in the collision process can be reduced. The consequences of a traffic accident are directly dependent on the manner of entry of the vehicle into the collision process. This safety factor cannot be influenced at all or can be influenced very little. In some traffic accidents, it is even very difficult to determine the manner of the position of the vehicle in the primary contact, or the type of collision. For this reason, I have dedicated this paper to only one type of collision, which is the oblique frontal collision. This type of collision is very common, and it is difficult to determine reliably. The exit paths of the vehicle from the collision process, in the case of an oblique frontal collision, are very different and largely depend on the construction of the vehicle and the kinetic energy that the vehicle has at the moment of primary contact.